Weren’t the dwarves created even before the elves?
You’re Peter Jackson?
Yep. Aulë was a bad, bad vala and made them ahead of time. But when Iluvatar confronted him, he was very sorry, so the dwarves were just put to sleep until the elves awakened.
I think the elves and humans were supposed to have been created at the same time Iluvater created the rest of the world, but were “sleeping” until awoken at a later time. The Dwarves were created later, but then put to sleep so that they wouldn’t inhabit the earth before elves and then humans could wake up and get first crack.
This from memory, as I don’t have my copy of the Silmarilion here.
Oh, and I’ll be very smelly and vile orc, as the smell matches my username and I imagine that orcs, like myself, are terrible spellers.
Well, if she wasn’t just “always hungry” but also permanently obsessed with her weight, I’d make a nice Shelob.
Elves = Firstborn
Just how many legs do you have, Maastricht? 
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I’ll be Rosie!
I was remembered in one of these threads! tdn, i love you!
I’m Rosie! Look back on page 1, thanks to tdn.
Hey guys, help me think of something else for Halfling. or maybe we can do a joint-Rosie. I’m good with baking, too, although my preference is honey mead and wines, rather than ale.
Suggestions requested–who might I be?
Given that I’m a 99er, but admittedly not as swift as most 99ers are, I was thinking Bilbo, who hangs with the Elves, & has lived a long life.
I guess I’d be Maglor. If anyone needs me, I’ll be out looking for some rocks with my brother Maedhros.
Now that’s obscure.
Can I just be a little She-Hobbit? Nobody special or anything, just a little lady hobbit baking muffins in her hobbit-hole.
I’m guessing that with my name, I’m not in the running for Glorfindel, huh? Could I at least be a Balrog? Just a run-of-the-mill Balrog would be OK…I’ don’t have to be Gothmog or nuthin’. I’d hate to be reduced to cave troll or…shudder…ettin.
I humbly request the part of a soldier. As a trained Cavalry/Armor officer it should be one of the riders Eomer is still open. I won’t presume to suggest my own character.
That’s not obscure. I want to be Amarië. That’s obscure.
Shucks, as a 99er you could exercise your Bullroarer Took option.
I’ll be more than happy to be that one Ent who stuck his burning crown into the flood to put out the fire during the battle at Isengard.
Technically correct, but as elfbabe pointed out, the Dwarves were awake and kicking before the elves arose at Cuivienen. Iluvatar even gave them sentience before putting them back to sleep.
So sure, the elves are the firstborn, and men are the followers, but the dwarves are the stepsibs from Uncle Aulë’s philandering days. They act odd, they eat funny stuff, and the rest of the family doesn’t like to talk about them a lot.
and Yeticus Rex? That Ent was Beechbone in the book, and he shuffled off this mortal coil as a result of those injuries. You can be Fladrif or something. M’kay?
Well, I have pointy ears (really, truly–not as pointy as m’dad’s, but then he isn’t a Doper) but I’m rather new on the scene so I’ll take a nice name if someone wants to give me one. Just as long as I don’t look it up later and find out it’s some girl who came to a bad end.
Since, as a 99er, I would be an elf, I’d prefer to be an ass kicking wood elf like Legolas and not a hoity-toity Lothlórien elf like Haldir.